Page 58 of Bending The Rules

She looked up at me, still smiling. “Yeah, that’s fine. I’m hot anyway.”

Thank God.

Outside, she didn’t say anything until we’d walked a little distance. She stopped to untie her sweater, and pulled it on again.

“Thank you for tonight,” she said, circling my wrists with her soft hands as she faced me. Her face was glowing with happiness, bearing no signs of her distress from before. “This was fun. I needed this.”

I maneuvered our hands so that I was holding hers, and squeezed. “Glad I could be of service. Although I did think I was going to have to kick somebody’s ass for looking at you too hard.”

She giggled. “What is up with that, Jus? First Russell, now these little young guys that youknowI’m not thinking about. You’re already out here looking jealous over me, you may as well just admit that you want me,” she teased.

“Yeah, maybe I should.”

Those words surprised both of us. Toni’s eyes went wide, lips parted as her eyes darted over my face, presumably waiting for me to give her an explanation for what had just come out of my mouth. But I didn’t have one – at least not one that was concise, and neatly packaged. I didn’t know how to convey that just as torn and confused as she was… so was I.

So instead… I kissed her.

It seemed like she melted into me as soon as I touched her. There was zero resistance as I kissed the remnants of green apple slush from her lips. I used my arm around her waist to pull her closer, and a hand at the back of her neck to pull her deeper into the kiss.

She let out a whimper that sent a surge straight to my groin, making me want her even more. As much as I could, I devoured her, kissing her until neither of us could breathe, and our lips were tender to the touch when we came up for air.

“Wha…what was that about?” she asked, meeting my eyes. I still had my hand at the back of her neck when I shook my head.

“I don’t know.”

She stared for a few seconds before she nodded. “Yeah. I mean… we’ve both had quite a bit to drink, so… it probably is best to call it a night, before we…confuse things any further.”

“You’re probably right.”

Reluctantly, I released my hold on her. We ambled back to the car in silence, both of us – presumably – wondering how we were possibly going to move forward from here. My mind kept coming around to one thing: We were making the shit way more complicated than it had to be.

When we reached where we were parked, I went to her side first, getting pissed when the door wouldn’t open until I realized I hadn’t unlocked it.

“Are you sure you’re good to drive?” Toni giggled, crossing her arms. She pressed her back against my SUV as she turned to face me, while I checked my pockets to find my keys.

I chuckled as my fingers closed around them. “You know… it’s questionable.”

“We might need to take a jog around the block or something first. You know, sweat it out of your system.”

I hit the button to unlock the truck, then moved to stand right in front of her. “Maybe. Or…there’s other ways to do that.”

Our eyes met for a second, and held, before Toni pulled her bottom lip between her teeth. She chewed at it for a second before she released it, uncrossing her arms to tuck her hands behind her. “Like what?”

“I think you already know the answer to that,” I said, stepping close enough that I could feel the heat from her body against mine.

“I thought we agreed not to complicate things anymore?”

I shrugged, then lowered my head to brush my lips against hers. “We aren’t. We’re simplifying. You want me, I want you. Nothing complicated about that.”

Once again, she was ready. As soon as my lips touched hers for another kiss, she wrapped her arms around my neck, pulling herself closer. And it didn’t feel awkward, or out of order – quite the opposite. It felt like we were following the natural course of what we should do.

I picked her up, hiking her legs around my waist as I deepened the kiss. She moaned as I rocked up against her, so I did that again, to get another one. Suddenly, that was my goal.How many moans and whimpers could I get out of her?

I let her feet back down long enough to open the side door of the SUV and make a few quick adjustments – pushing the passenger seat all the way up, and the seat behind it all the way back, giving us maximum room for… whatever we needed to do.

I pushed aside thoughts about anything except what was happening in the moment. I undressed her slowly, enjoying the anticipation that played on her face, and the shivers that ran through her body when I touched her.

She laid back on the reclined seat, and I spread her legs open, admiring what I could see in the dark confines of my vehicle. She sucked in a breath when my lips touched the inside of her thigh, again, and again, and again. By the time I reached the juncture of her thighs, she was trembling. When I closed my mouth over her, she sat up, moaning as my tongue played with her sensitive flesh.

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